At Anqing Wharf, the Qing soldiers of the Green Camp Water Division stood on the wharf to greet the approaching fleet. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info After a while, a fleet of ships flying the Ao Zi flag went up the current and slowly approached the dock.

Surrounded by a group of goshkha and officials, Ao Bai stepped off a large ship.

There was a convoy that had been waiting on the pier for a long time, and the most luxurious and conspicuous of them was a four-wheeled carriage in the middle of the convoy.

Ao Bai got into the four-wheeled carriage, and the clothed servant coachman sitting in front of the carriage waved his whip, and the four horses pulling the carriage pulled the four-wheeled carriage and galloped on the blue stone road leading from the dock to the city.

Although there were no rubber wheels in this era, this four-wheeled carriage was cushioned by copper springs between the rear axle and the carriage, so it felt very smooth to sit in the car. The seats in the car are made of rattan and are elastic, and it is soft to sit on. Now because it is already November, the weather in Anqing is a little cold, so a cushion made of goose down is spread on the seat, and it is very soft to sit on. In the summer, you can change it to a bamboo mat.

Ao Bai loves this carriage very much, this carriage marked with Mercedes-Benz brand is produced by Nanyang Mercedes-Benz Automobile Company, this carriage makes people look very luxurious, the windows are transparent glass, the carriage is fragrant wood, with an elegant fragrance, the spokes of the wheels are made of copper, there are copper springs at the bottom of the car to reduce vibration, and the door handle is gilded on the outside of brass, and it has been polished, shining with yellow golden light.

On the four corners of the carriage, a glass-covered wind lamp hangs on each of them, and the oil used for this lamp is said to be the fierce fire oil imported from the Eastern Ying Kingdom; There is also a glass lamp in the car, which is made of a scented lamp oil, which is said to be a type of lamp oil called Haijiao oil imported from the Eastern Ei Kingdom.

The so-called sea Jiao oil is actually whale oil, and the outer packaging of the sea Jiao oil sold to the Qing Dynasty is written to be made by the Japanese people, but it is actually produced by Wang Xinyu's fishing company, because most of the whales are caught in Japanese waters, so the whale oil sold to the Qing court is written as the domestic production of the Dongying Japanese.

Whale oil is a white, transparent, scented oil that can also emit a special fragrance when used to light lamps. Therefore, Aobai, like many Qing court officials, particularly liked this kind of lamp oil, and they also used Haijiao oil lamps at home.

This carriage has a complex structure, comfortable to ride, and the price of different grades is different, ranging from two hundred taels of silver to five thousand taels of silver, and it is said that there are more expensive ones, which cost more than ten thousand taels of silver, and they cannot be bought, so they need to be customized. Ao Bai did not use such a luxurious carriage, but used a carriage of more than 3,000 taels of silver.

This kind of Mercedes-Benz carriage was also deeply loved by officials and wealthy people at all levels in the Qing Dynasty. I heard that Wu Sangui used more than 10,000 taels of silver and ordered a carriage in advance. Thinking of this, Ao Bai was very uncomfortable: Wu Sangui, this kid, has made so much money in the past few years, and his life is too free, right?

For this kind of complex structure and comfortable carriage, Ao Bai will not shout any kit kat yin skills like some people, in fact, Ao Bai is still quite concerned about the power of science and technology, and Ao Bai is not very exclusive to the Han people.

In fact, in the early Qing Dynasty, it was the first emperor Kang Mazi who really rejected the Han people, isolated the Manchu and Han people, and regarded the power of science and technology as a flood beast. Kang Mazi's so-called great achievements are all touted by people like a certain Yuehe and Yan Screaming Beasts, and Kang Mazi's real talent is not very good. Among the Manchu emperors, the really powerful ones are Huang Taiji and Yongzheng.

Back in Fuzhong, when I had lunch at noon, Ao Bai felt that today's dishes tasted very good, especially fried vegetables. They are used to eating meat on weekdays, and occasionally change the taste to eat some light vegetables, but after all, the taste of vegetables is light, and it is okay to change the taste occasionally, but they can't eat it as a main dish.

However, today's stir-fried vegetables taste different, and the taste is particularly delicious. Today's other dishes are much more delicious than usual, and even the meat is much better than usual.

The cook served grilled lamb chops, which was no stranger to Aobai and them, and they did not eat less roast mutton when they were outside the customs. However, today's grilled lamb chops are different from the past, and as soon as you come up, you can smell an enticing aroma. Ao Bai picked up a piece of lamb chops and put it in his mouth, which felt particularly delicious. This lamb chop has a little spicy flavor and a peculiar aroma, which is mixed with the original mutton flavor to become a fresh aroma.

Ao Bai was in a good mood and called the cook to ask, "Today's food is very delicious, how do you make it?" The old man has been in Jiangning for a month, and your minion cooking skills have grown a lot? ”

The cook replied: "Back to the master, it is not the minion who is good at cooking, but the minion who buys new condiments and spices to make such high-quality dishes." ”

At that time, chili peppers were not popular in China, and many spices did not come in, and the spices used for barbecue were fennel and pepper. This time, the chef bought chili peppers and cumin, and added them to the barbecue to make the barbecue taste even more delicious.

As for why the stir-fried vegetables became delicious, it was because the chef bought a Haiyan brand chicken essence from Nanyang.

At this time, the chicken essence produced by Wang Xinyu's Nanyang Company was not the chicken essence obtained from the industrial production of grain raw materials later, but the real chicken essence! Because the people who farm in Nanyang have a large amount of farmland per capita, grow more grain, and also plant high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, sweet potato leaves can be used to raise pigs and chickens.

The climate of the South Seas is hot, there are many insects, and they grow fast, and these insects become a delicacy for chickens. The chickens raised by the farmers were released to forage everywhere, and the large number of insects in the South Seas increased the nutrition of the chickens. The rice bran from the threshing of the grain by the farmers is also used to feed the chickens. In this way, the chickens produced in the South Seas cannot be eaten at all.

In addition, the Nanyang Company also mastered the technology of artificially cultivating shiitake mushrooms, which were originally very expensive and could only be eaten by dignitaries and the court. Now that the technology of artificial cultivation of shiitake mushrooms has been mastered, the production of shiitake mushrooms has increased significantly.

After having a large number of chickens and shiitake mushrooms, Nanyang began to produce chicken essence. This essence of chicken is cooked with chicken and shiitake mushrooms, then dried and ground into powder, salt, sugar and ground green onion and ginger powder, stirred well, and then put into a ceramic bottle to make real chicken essence.

The cost of this kind of chicken essence is high, and the price is not cheap, and a small bottle weighing less than a pound costs one or two silver. But for rich people, a tael of silver is nothing, and this kind of chicken essence is very durable, and the amount used to make each dish is very small, and a pound can make a family eat for a month, which is not expensive for rich people. As a result, after Haiyan brand chicken essence was shipped in, the sales were particularly good, and many people competed to buy it. Later, even some medium-sized people buy chicken essence, because this kind of thing tastes very good when put in vegetable soup, which is much cheaper than drinking chicken soup.

Ao Bai picked up the chicken essence, and saw that it said Haiyan brand, the origin of Nanyang, and sighed in his heart: I don't know what happened to the red-haired ghost, it would be good if the red-haired ghost beat Nanyang, so many good things produced in Nanyang have become ours!

It was also at this time that the Dutch were besieging Batavia, which had been renamed Coconut City.

The castle built by the Dutch themselves was so strong that the Dutch drove a large number of natives to attack the castle, but the corpses of the natives were piled up under the castle, and they still could not get close to the castle.

Originally, it was impossible for the Indonesian locals to attack the fortified castle like this, but I don't know who changed their ancient scriptures, saying that killing the infidels can lead to heaven. The rivers of heaven flow with milk and honey, and in heaven there are seventy-two virgins waiting.

As a result, these local Indonesians have become fanatical Green cultists, using their infinite potential to attack the castle with their lives.

In the castle, in addition to the 1,000 marines of the Ming Army, there are also 2,000 members of the Nanyang Company's escort team, as well as 2,000 Japanese miners and 200 Japanese samurai.

The Wakuni miners, who consisted of ashigaru and iron gunners, were miners in weekdays and militia in wartime.

Being a slave in Nanyang is not only not a shame for them, but a good thing! Because the ordinary people of the Wa Kingdom could not even eat a full meal, although the Wa State was rich in silver, gold and brass, but these precious metals were not food after all, the population density of the Wa State was large, the farmland was scarce, and it was very good for ordinary farmers to eat rice balls once a month.

After they came here to work as slaves, they could eat a full stomach every day, and occasionally meat and fish, which was a paradise life for ordinary Japanese farmers.

In order to keep their hard-won happiness, the miners of the Japanese country fought even more bravely than the Nanyang Company escorts.

Of course, there are also people who think that the Japanese mining slaves are too murderous, and the means of killing the surrounding Indonesian natives are much more cruel than the Han Chinese, slaughtering the villages of the Indonesians, but the Japanese mining slaves do not even blink an eye, they bloody the local villages, and almost all the Indonesians within a radius of 50 miles around Batavia.

Wang Xinyu thinks that it is nothing, and the hearts of non-ethnic groups must be different, and those Indonesians should be killed. Wang Xinyu knew that the Indonesians in later generations were even more hateful than the Japanese, the Japanese were quite diligent, the Indonesians were simply lazy, and they were envious of the wealth of the Chinese in Indonesia, so they found an excuse to massacre to plunder the property of the Chinese.

Batavia's bastions can be used to full potential, and attackers will be flanked from three sides, regardless of which side they attack. On the front walls of the castle and on the bastions, there were shooting holes.

Female ninja Yagyu Felisa sat by the wall and waited while holding a long knife. She is the daughter of the famous ninja Yanagi Shibei of the Wa Kingdom, and she has received the true inheritance of her father, and her martial arts are very strong. Before, the masters of the Heaven and Earth Society went to Dongying, and met friends with martial arts, and the ninjas and swordsmen of the Yanagi family met Cai Jiuyi, and the two sides had a competition, but no one was an opponent! Even if he came here, Cai Jiuyi's apprentice Emperor Hu Dedi came out to compete, and the person with the highest martial arts in the Liu Sheng family could only fight a tie with Emperor Hu De.

"There are so many masters of your Ming Kingdom!" Yanagi Felisa said with great admiration.

"The Chinese martial arts are broad and profound, and the martial arts of your country have been inherited by us, although there are a few top masters, but our folk masters are like clouds." Eddy replied.

In the battle to defend the city, the samurai and ninjas of the Yagyu clan did not have many opportunities to play. Before a large number of Indonesian natives approached the castle, they were shot and killed by the Ming army and the Japanese miners.

Tongues of fire erupted from the castle's shooting holes, and the Nanyang Marines, Nanyang Company Escorts, and Japanese miners took turns stretching out their muskets from the shooting holes and firing bullets at the approaching Indonesian aborigines' cannon fodder, causing a mountain of corpses to pile up under the castle. When the Indonesian natives approached, they set up a simple ladder, and the company guards and Japanese miners on the castle threw oil cans and rolling wood stones, killing and injuring a large number of Indonesians who were climbing.

Even if some Indonesians were lucky enough to get to the top of the city, before they could stand firmly, a group of ashigaru went up with spears and stabbed the Indonesian natives into meat skewers.

The noble samurai could only watch the battle and did not get the opportunity to play, which made the people of the Yagyu family feel very uncomfortable.

The people of the Yagyu family came to Nanyang to help because of the relationship between Zheng Xi and the Wa Kingdom, and Zheng Sen's younger brother was also a Wa Guo man, named Tagawa Nanazaemon. Through his connections, many Japanese people came to Nanyang to help in the war.

You must know that the status of the ashigaru and iron gunners in the Japanese army is very low, and these Japanese mine slaves are made up of ashigaru and iron gunners who were captured in the shogunate civil war. However, they played a major role in the defense of the city, and it was the noble samurai who had nothing to do in the defense.

"In future wars, firearms will become more and more important, and the role of individual martial arts in war will become smaller and smaller. The role of military generals in war is mainly strategy and formation, and proper command is the key to victory or defeat. Hu Dedi said.

"Assassination is still useful, we ninjas can assassinate the enemy commander." Yanagi Felisa said unconvinced.

Emperor Hu Dedi was not interested in this Japanese woman, and in good conscience said that this female ninja was not bad, but she was too short, less than five feet tall. If you follow the aesthetic standards of that year, she was a beauty in the East, and most of the beauties of that era were not high. But Hu Dedi, who was born in martial arts, liked tall girls.

"The natives are coming up!" At this time, someone shouted.

Those Indonesians who were brainwashed by the mutant ancient lan were like chicken blood, and they climbed to the castle one by one. The muskets roared in the shooting hole, and the lime bottles, oil cans, stones, and wolf teeth at the head of the city were smashed down, and the corpses of the Indonesians piled up into a hill under the castle, but the Indonesians still rushed forward one after another.

The corpses on the ground had piled up more than a foot high, and the Indonesians set up a ladder on top of the corpses and forcibly climbed up to the top of the city under heavy fire.

The Indonesians who rushed to the front were extremely fierce and cut down many Japanese miners in a row.

"Kill!" Hu Dedi led the Marine Corps special operators to fight from the side.

The samurai of the Yanagi family also came out, and more than 300 masters slaughtered into the crowd of Indonesians, slashing and slashing like melons and vegetables, and the more than 200 Indonesians who easily climbed to the top of the city all fell in a pool of blood.

"These lowly natives, I really don't know what is going on in their heads, why don't they die?" Yagyu Felisa was puzzled. (To be continued.) )